"predstavuje tam travnik sferu verejnej kontroly?" - v USA? (pred tým spomínaš satelity na svk, tak neviem isto)

myslím, že použitý jazyk to ukazuje celkom jasne:

institution, set of rules, (belongs to the) community, (lawn) symbolizes, (way you express your) solidarity, gesture (to the neighbors); the front lasn becomes purely a symbol, peculiar institution, normal

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"Yet another type of simulation is the gadget, a useless, impoverished object which simulates a function without having any real, practical referent. As such, the gadget is part of a broader process (growing numbers of useless, simulated objects) affecting society as a whole. As a result, all of society is suspected of uselessness, artificiality and fakery. More specifically, we act with gadgets in a ludic rather than a symbolic or utilitarian manner and this, too, is only part of a broader process since the curious play with combinations is coming to characterize more and more aspects of society. In other words, the world is coming to be increasingly dominated by simulations and we are reduced to playing with them rather than using them, or relating to them, symbolically." https://kyberia.sk/id/8403901

V tomto kontexte by som ale až taký rozdiel medzi "ludic" a "symbolic" nevidela